re: Odd files

From: H C (keydet89@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/02

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From: H C <keydet89@yahoo.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

    > Has anyone ever heard of or seen the a file of this
    name
    > and type before?
    >
    > popup.powerball
    >
    > It is not an ASCII file and it is 20,617 bytes.

    Jim,

    Your post makes no mention of the operating system you
    found this no, nor does it say anything at all about
    the type of the file. You asked if anyone has seen
    the file of this name and type before, but you never
    say what the type is, other than it's NOT ASCII.

    What platform did you find this file on?

    What is the full path to the file?

    Did you collect the MAC times of the file before you
    did anything else?

    Did you happen to generate an MD5 or SHA-1 hash for
    the file?

    You say that the file is NOT ASCII...how do you know?
    What is the signature of the file?

    Did you run "strings" on the file?

    It's not abundantly clear why you posted your question
    in the first place. You probably could have found as
    much of an answer as you're going to get, w/ as little
    info as you provided, by doing a Google search.

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